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I’m salvaging so much, that i no longer hover over the item to see which quality it is. I like the popup that says it’s a rare or higher quality.
GW2 needs less loot in my opinion, and the loot should be quality > quantity.
Quite impressive to have been playing a game for 3 years when it have only been out for about 2,5.
I am also questioning if you have tried the new areas or the new/updated world bosses. Since they are very much not easier than stuff at launch.
You are also missing the fact that there is an expansion coming that is basically only for veteran players (only contains max-level stuff as far as we know).
IMO, you have two really good points that are completely undermined by one pedantic kitten statement.
There has been a fair amount of new content. Much of it temporary. We are, admittedly, in a content lull right now. But it’s not like there’s been nothing for veteran players.
For example, in the past two years we have had Festivals, Living Story 1 & 2, WvW Seasons, Guild Missions, Fractals, Ascended Everything, Revamped Teq, Wurm, PvP stuff (I don’t play PvP, but I’m sure there’s been something), WvW ranks, and revamped borderland maps.
Yes, but when you compare that content to other MMOs, you will see how miniscule it really is. Just go look at any MMO wiki and look at their content release updates. GW2 pales in comparison.
Quite impressive to have been playing a game for 3 years when it have only been out for about 2,5.
I am also questioning if you have tried the new areas or the new/updated world bosses. Since they are very much not easier than stuff at launch.
You are also missing the fact that there is an expansion coming that is basically only for veteran players (only contains max-level stuff as far as we know).
That’s just being technical with dates. It’s close enough.
Some of his points are valid. Stop focusing on that one thing.
The way i see it, there isn’t enough fun.
Same dungeons and pvp maps. Only one WvW map, which turned into PvE. Two small zones, Dry Top & Silverwastes. And then Living Story.
All this for nearly 3 years.
People complain about clipping, and when you mix and match individual pieces, it happens a lot. If people would stop crying over some minor clipping issues, then maybe Anet wouldn’t have to worry about it so much. Clipping will always happen, until there are better rigging options available in MMOs. It’s all about the rigging.
- The fact that you have not committed to a release date for HoT and still hype it up while it’s in early beta shows that you guys do not have the confidence to set a date, do not have enough staff to have that confidence, and will probably release the expansion “unfinished,” which might be a subjective word to you, but, again, FFXIV Heavensward will be a “finished” product. They’ve already gone into detail about what you’ll be getting, a lot more than your cute little “we’re nowhere done yet, even though it’s been 3 years to work on an expansion, but here’s where we think we are and where we think we’re going.”
This is the only part i agree with, but the rest of your post is biased, or unworthy of replying to.
It’s really astonishing that Anet hyped an expansion, with nothing else to do in between.
They get everyone hyped, with no release date in sight. Do they really think people are going to wait? The hype for HoT is dead now. It might be alive within the community, but i’m talking about outside of it. They should have kept interest in the game with upcoming content updates after the HoT announcement, but they failed at that. it’s going to be almost 6 months since the announcement, with nothing to look forward to. GW2 is so boring right now.
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GW2 is all about grind though. I don’t see this changing at all.
I stopped doing dungeons a long time ago. I refuse to do them until they fix them.
You have to be kidding me. GW2’s underwater combat is by far one of the best in the genre. Have you ever tried underwater combat in other MMO’s? It’s terrible.
A good solution would be to restrict a change every 30 days, for a free change, and then charge gems for those who want to change it before that, but still restrict them to once a week.
The most important thing when choosing Ascended gear, is determining what kind of stats you want for it, because once you choose them, you cannot change them. So choose which playstyle want first.
It’s really not that bad. The comparison to other greedy f2p MMO’s is way off base.
In almost all f2p MMO’s, you cannot convert gold to other currencies, which allow you to purchase extra slots or other things. GW2 gives more freedom of choice, compared to those other MMO’s.
From what i’ve been reading, no. It only drops from mobs and event chests. Not the chests that require keys.
I think their low drop rate on this beta key might not be as much of a problem if it could be dropped from everywhere. But why limit it to DryTop and SilverWastes? If it dropped from all areas of the game, then it would still be rewarding active players, and you could have a chance at getting it by going about doing what you want to do… seems like a win-win to me.
Making you go to the two grindiest maps in the game and farm the same content over and over for hours, if not days, just seems like a really bad decision on ArenaNet’s part though.
Agreed, but i think they wanted to tie it in with some lore behind it, since it’s a “portal” to the next zone. I can understand the reasoning, even if i don’t like it..
I won’t farm it ever again, and i only farmed it because i wanted to see what the drop rate would be like. It’s not worth my time though. I’d rather just do other things in real life.
People already whining about the drop rates ??
It is in only 2 zones and the beta keys will drop from time to time so it is part of the issue ..
Not all of us are whining about drop rates. Some of us are unhappy that it’s relegated to only 2 zones, which makes it very boring and repetitive. It would’ve been nice if it was obtainable by other means.
I understand they wanted to make it relevant to the HoT/Modremoth story, but they could’ve expanded it to living story chapters, or even pvp.
Oh well, i won’t lose any sleep over it, but you shouldn’t dismiss other people’s concerns.
Supposedly someone got in Dry Top around 30 min ago. He even linked it in chat. He said it was from an event chest.
I just wish the item dropped all over tyria instead of DT and SW.
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This is a flagrant double standard. At this point, we need to do one of two things:
- Immediately restore the human female idle animations
- or -
- Immediately remove mini pets from the game until they can be “fixed” to behave properly during cutscenes.
Bring back the animations! ’Nuff said.
Uh?
Minis are optional items that are often designed to be silly.
I don’t see how someone having one out that happens to mess with the mood of the setting is as weighty an issue as having the player character, which is mandatory, react poorly to the mood of the setting.
I understand the animations need to be fixed, but thats a reallllly huge leap to try to make your point.
No it’s not. It’s exactly the same thing. Whether it’s the silly minis ruining the immersion or a stretch or some tree branch being in the wrong spot. It’s the same thing. The player character did not react poorly to anything, it (just like Kasmeer and other npcs were) was playing out an idle animation while being idle. In a scripted cutscene. That you watch once, maybe twice. Then you are done. Not bothered by it anymore. But you are standing idle elsewhere more often than being in that one particular godkitten ed kittening cutscene.
But if the mini aggravates you, you can turn it off. That’s the difference I’m pointing at.
Then Anet should force minis to be disabled, since they want to be authoritarian about the whole issue of their cinematics. God forbid their “precious” cutscenes be ruined by immersion!
I just find it amateurish that they would remove them without even having a fix planned, especially since it was never game-breaking.
Good grief do I really have to keep posting this quote from Gaile posted in your OP ?
TL;dr: This change is coming, as soon as it can be scheduled and prioritized. Naturally, some matters that are higher on the priority list but this project will be scheduled as appropriate.
I’m not really sure what you don’t understand about that.
That still doesn’t explain the double standard. Why would they remove the animations if they didn’t even have a fix planned? That’s sloppy management. It’s just amateur. It’s not like it was game-breaking or crashing computers.
Get your machines prepared for the lag!
I would just wait for HoT, unless you like doing living story stuff, and if you do, you’ll have to buy the episodes with gems.
No, that’s just stupid. I could understand if it was a racial/class lore thing, but to give everyone that option is just immersion breaking.
Hiding shoulders, gloves, and helm only, makes more sense since battles can be fought without them. It’s very rare that people would go into battle without some chest and leg protection, unless they’re some indigenous tribe.
not final yet, but they are workin on it \o/ bomb/granade/med
Wow, that looks terrible. Thanks to all the whiners for getting this changed.
Now it just looks ridiculous to see an engineer pull a huge keg of powder out of thin air.
I hope there’s an even bigger backlash against this from people in game. The forum whiners are a small minority and Anet totally caved.
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Will it be an option to toggle them on or off? I’ll be disappointed if they remove them entirely. It’s a nice aesthetic feature and adds to immersion to my engineer.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. They removed the human female idle animation, and never fixed the norn female “bug”. Females aren’t supposed to act feminine in GW2.. go figure.
We used to be able to deposit, but they changed it. I actually liked being able to deposit, but not everyone did.
https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/specializations-part-one-a-primer/
How will the new stats & trait changes affect zerker?
Base player stats will be increased from 926 to 1000.
Base attribute points on equipment will be increased so that all the gear in the game will give higher stats than it did before. This should account for most of the missing points.
Each profession’s attributes will be updated to have half of their functionality be part of a specialization and half of their functionality will be a baseline for that profession.
For example, elementalists now have a base attunement recharge of 10 seconds, which is reduced to 8.7 seconds when the arcane specialization is equipped.
This isn’t going to change the Zerker meta.
Stats will still be on gear, and since there won’t be any new dungeons, people are still going to use zerker gear for them.
As soon as that HoT hype train was started, a lot of my guildies knew they were just gonna take a break until HoT releases, which is exactly what anet decided to do- take a break and so now we are in this lull period until HoT release.
You make it sound like the expansion is developing itself. ArenaNet is probably working even more intensively now than they did before they announced the expansion. They are in no way or form “taking a break”.
I’m pretty sure he meant taking a break from the usual living story and feature pack stuff. It’s obvious to everyone they are working on HoT.
Once again though, they leave their playerbase in the dark, and then speculation runs rampant. We haven’t heard of anything new for almost 4 months now, except some tidbits about HoT. We have no idea when HoT is even releasing. It could be in 6 months, or it could be in a year.
Quite frankly, it’s arrogant of the people in charge, to do this to their playerbase. They hype up their fans, then go dark, and think they will always have their loyalty. That loyalty fades over time when people have had enough. Many veterans have already abandoned the game, and only log in for the daily reward. When your game gets to that point, it’s no longer worth playing, and then it leads to uninstalling.
What is killing it right now is the complete lack of anything to do that is even remotely fresh or fun. Where ANet fell down on this was to send out the hype train so early, and then fail to release any content whatsoever in the meantime just to keep people interested.
This sums exactly what’s wrong with GW2 currently. They conjured all this hype surrounding HoT, and failed to follow up with any interesting.
The sad part is, they’ve had so many new players join the game, and this was the perfect opportunity to keep them invested longer. Imagine all those new players that bought GW2 due to HoT’s hype, and have now quit because of boredom. A wasted opportunity.
And that’s why people complain about Guild Wars 2 recently. We got Living Story updates and content every two weeks to two months, depending on certain situations, and now we’re getting nothing. In a nutshell, ANet set a certain standard of expectations with their continual updates.
Now? We get nada until some undisclosed time in the future. Maybe this summer? Maybe this Christmas? Maybe next year?
See the problem? I know I am and so are a lot of players. Thus this thread and the exodus.
And yet everyone with any sort of understanding of reality would know that it could not go on for ever. Especially not if they were going to start releasing expansions. Which interestingly enough those of us that preferred the Living Story system warned about when people were demanding expansions. And here we are.
There is no exodus. People can claim that all they want, but the fact that there are daily posts about people just starting the game or coming back to the game suggest otherwise. So does actual activity in the game itself.
These people aren’t staying for the long term. It’s a short term investment.
It’s just like a themepark in real life. You get people on the ride, then funnel them out quickly so others can have a ride.
There is no long term investment for gw2.
It’s funny seeing people blame others, for wanting an expansion. That’s just a load of bs. Almost all other MMO’s release content patches between expansions. It keeps the existing playerbase interested. Even Gw2 did it with Feature Packs and Holiday Events, but not this time. There is absolutely no new content since January. At the least they could’ve released an Easter holiday event.
Just look at the link: https://www.guildwars2.com/en/the-game/releases/
As always, their policy keeps their players in the dark. They will never learn their lesson on this stupid policy. This just reaffirms that GW2 resources were siphoned to fund WS, which bombed disastrously.
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Is it any wonder why this game is stale and boring now? People are demanding bunny ears instead of something substantial that adds to encounters/gameplay. /facepalm
so does anyone think that with the beginning of expansions for gw2 with hot we will start to see new skills like this added to the game? im hopeful but im sure it wont be in the first expansion, but maybe some of these ideas will be used for guild halls
Well, as i said on page 2 (in above link), which is over 9 months ago, i seriously doubt Anet will focus on housing.
Ever since then… Swtor has released their housing system and expanded on it greatly. WS has their own form, WoW has Garrisons, and Tera released Guild Housing.
Anet would’ve said something about it for HoT, so i wouldn’t hold my breath.
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Everyone got hyped for HoT, then Anet dropped the ball again. They didn’t keep players interested after the HoT announcement. How did they not see this coming? They should have had another major update following that announcement to keep people interested until HoT. It boggles my mind they didn’t do this.
id have to say pushing HoT while failing to deliver any content in the mean time is a very questionable and risky decision i personaly know at least 15 players who have droped out and at least 4 of those have stated they will not return
continuous and regular content updates have been the only thing keeping this game going when it so clearly lacks end game content for players who have been here from the start and now this insanely long wait with no new content is killing the game for alot of players who are simply bored stupid re running the same content over and over again
I have to agree. They should’ve had some content to keep people interested. But this is the norm for GW2. Lite on content. It’s been several months since the HoT announcement. It makes me wonder if they dissolved one of their teams or merged them all for HoT.
Traits. That’s the #1 questionable decision, and it amazes me that it ever went live. lol.
Megaservers would be next. It destroyed server communities, as well as RP.
Oh, and the TP revamp. That was just bad.
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Not really. It was fun back then, but GW2 is leagues better in certain aspects.
I’ve played 4 games so far, and i’m actually enjoying it.
People are still learning what to do, so the games aren’t as good, but give it time, and it will definitely be a favorite amongst the players. There’s all types of strats that can be used in it.
I just started playing again, and found out each borderland is only 60 people max now. Wow, i can’t believe Anet did this to WvW. It’s bad enough wvw players get shafted already, but this was seriously stupid.
Not only that, but i can already tell that large guilds will be hostile towards non-guildies for taking up a slot they would rather have their guildies use.
Never played WoW, can you jump/climb literally everything you can see? Are there jumping puzzles and hidden nooks/rewards for playing like a goat on a mission to break the map?
I’ve always thought the terrain of gw2 is amazing, the free roaming and lack of invisible walls is a huge plus. I played TERA for about 10 minutes recently, walked into four invisible walls and uninstalled it.
Just imagine walking from Frostgorge Sound to Cursed Shore without a loading screen.
You’ll still be blocked by mountains too high, but you’ll have the freedom to travel through different routes to another zone. This isn’t possible with GW2, since the only way out is through a portal or waypoint.
" David is a freelance writer and full-time nerd. He loves to play, write about, talk about and think about all things gaming".
Think about= opinion. Also a writer give opinion: any writer can give opinion about any game.
I do not understand how some of you player treat a professional writer opinion as fact?
I look for hard evidence and there is no hard evidence because personal opinion was already given.Fact definition- being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory; not opinionated…
Opinion definition- the formal expression of a professional judgment
Hard Evidence-
Last: that is why i do research before make case. Next time: Please! do research before give conclusion.
Nobody is treating it as a fact. They are just agreeing with his opinions.
This always bothered me about GW2. They made all the zones instanced and artificially connected them. Imagine if it was more natural and seamless without any zoning.
Yeah, i know GW1 had portals, but that’s hardly an excuse to make a world non-seamless.
It is according to this list.
http://www.mmorpg.com/showFeature.cfm/feature/9594/The-List-5-Awesome-BuytoPlay-MMOs.html
1) Guild Wars 2
Coming up on three years since launch, Guild Wars 2 remains as one of the best MMOs on the market and easily the best all-around MMO in the buy-to-play bracket. The amount of content that’s been released over the past 2 ½ years for no additional charge is absolutely staggering; everything from new features, new modes and maps, and even a constantly evolving storyline has helped this game continuously change and evolve over time.With its first paid expansion on the horizon, there has never been a better time to jump in on the Guild Wars 2 craze. Virtually all aspects of the game, from the combat, to the questing, to the server-wide warfare, and competitive PvP modes offers a fresh take for the genre that you won’t find anywhere else. Plus, the game is on sale all the time so chances are you can hop in at a fraction of the standard price and get ready for the expansion later this year.
It’s good to see GW2 leading the pack. Hopefully more MMO’s follow the trend.
Wait a minute.. they have time to re-create these animations, yet they don’t fix the human female idle animation, that they labeled as a bug? Priorities much?
Well, if he’s on Darkhaven, i just hope there isn’t queue for WvW.
As for popularity, i view streamer fanboys the same as pop-star fangirls. They are no different than screaming tweens at a 1D or bieber concert.
Well, if we’re going to be proscriptive, maybe we should go back to the root of the word.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=wyvern
If “wyvern” is derived from the latin word “vipera”, the “v” is pronounced as “w”, and the “i” would be a short vowel. Pronouncing the “i” as “ae” would be incorrect, and the “i” would be pronounced as it is in “whip”.
This only applies if we’re being proscriptive instead of descriptive though. ;p
Guild Wars 2 isn’t moving towards a holy trinity. It wouldn’t even work in Guild Wars 2
A holy trinity would be the opposite of diversity anyway.
Yeah, there’s so much diversity… oh wait. Zerker meta is one role.
Some people were hoping for this for feature pack 2, but sadly it never came. It might not even come out with HoT, so i wouldn’t hold out hope. It’s too bad we can’t switch out our stats on exotics or ascended too.
Not only that but 10 wins is too much for the reward. 5 wins is even too much. It’s not like the game is really fun either. It just feels like a daily chore. It’s actually more than 10 because you aren’t guaranteed to win 10 in a row. I would rather be doing somethng else than ride out this grind.
It should be changed with 3 games to win, or 5 games total.